O'Reilly was drafted 15 years ago and played in the NHL in his D+1 year, and Getzlaf was drafted 21 years ago. Both centers.
The fact that we're having to refer to these ancient one0per-decade anecdotes kind of shows the extreme rarity of their situations.
For every O'Reilly and Getzlaf, there's probably several dozens of Virtanens, Dachs, Mark McNeills, Brendan Gaunces, Henrik Samuelssons, Samuel Morins, Zach Nastasiuks, etc.
I'm having to use full names, because many of them faded into obscurity. Although it's actually quite rare for 1st round CHL forwards to only be a point per game after their draft year.
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